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June 01, 2026
A group of Delaware plaintiffs who say Pfizer's hormonal contraceptive Depo-Provera causes brain tumors can't block a joint evidentiary hearing with a Florida federal court overseeing multidistrict litigation over the same claims after the Eleventh Circuit denied their petition Monday.
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June 01, 2026
A Federal Circuit panel Monday seemed reluctant to consider ParkerVision's challenge to a lower court's claim construction while other parts of its patent suit against Qualcomm remain pending, with one judge saying the litigation's protracted nature doesn't make it exceptional or justify special treatment.
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June 01, 2026
Moderna has urged the Federal Circuit to rule that Arbutus Biopharma must pursue its patent infringement claims over Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine against the U.S. government, saying a lower court ruling that Moderna must face the multibillion-dollar suit was "deeply flawed."
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June 01, 2026
The Board of Immigration Appeals failed to fully consider a Salvadoran woman's attempt to avoid removal after fleeing familial violence, the Fourth Circuit ruled Monday, finding it didn't examine a particular social group she said she was persecuted for belonging to.
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June 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down a petition asking it to take a second look at a Sixth Circuit decision refusing to revive litigation against Libya over its cellular network tender process, a case that was originally dismissed more than two decades ago on sovereign immunity grounds.
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June 01, 2026
The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday ruled that evidence discovered during a car search conducted by police cannot be suppressed as part of a drug and weapons possession trial in state court because the search was justified under a legal exception for vehicle searches.
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June 01, 2026
A man accused of killing a detective in the Virgin Islands won't face the death penalty because prosecutors missed a court-imposed deadline, but the crime qualifies for death, should prosecutors seek the penalty in similar cases, the Third Circuit said in a matter of first impression Monday.
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June 01, 2026
A split Third Circuit panel has ruled that a Philadelphia police officer can't be sued for photographing and sharing a picture of a dead man who jumped from a bridge, holding that while the conduct was "deplorable," the Constitution did not clearly establish that families have a right to control images of their loved ones' deaths.
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June 01, 2026
A plaintiffs' attorney and law firm sanctioned in multidistrict litigation alleging prenatal exposure to acetaminophen can cause autism agreed to donate $50,000 to maternal health organization March of Dimes in lieu of paying attorney fees, according to a letter filed Monday in New York federal court.
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June 01, 2026
Utah and two of its counties are asking the Tenth Circuit to grant the Ute Indian Tribe permission to file an interlocutory appeal on whether split estate lands are Indian Country, saying that final resolution of the issue will allow a half-century of litigation to end.
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June 01, 2026
A Georgia appeals court axed an order permanently barring a family from disposing of septic tank waste on their land without a permit in a case brought by the state's Environmental Protection Division, saying Monday the lower court needed to take a more thorough look at the regulations in play.
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June 01, 2026
Prolific patent attorney William Ramey has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look at a case in which his client was ordered to pay the attorney fees of a rival litigant after the case was tossed for asserting expired patents, saying the case had seen the standard for attorney fee awards "rewritten."
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June 01, 2026
A D.C. federal judge imposed limits on the data Google can access from would-be rivals seeking its search data and syndicated search results, agreeing with the U.S. Department of Justice that the company can't access every piece of information submitted to a technical committee overseeing its monopolization remedies.
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June 01, 2026
A Romanian man convicted of running multimillion-dollar online schemes has, for now, upended a court order requiring him to pay $850,000 to his alleged victims, the Sixth Circuit ruled, saying in a published opinion that the trial court violated federal law by imposing the prosecution's requested restitution sum without explaining how it got to that number.
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June 01, 2026
A Second Circuit panel on Monday affirmed a district court decision that authorized the United States to sell a seized superyacht, finding the businessman contesting its sale could not prove he was the yacht's true owner.
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June 01, 2026
Trucking services giant Penske Logistics LLC and its freight broker affiliate Penske Transportation Management LLC have told the Fifth Circuit that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Montgomery ruling doesn't support reviving negligence claims from the family of a man killed in a 2018 Texas collision.
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June 01, 2026
A Connecticut attorney who successfully challenged his 90-day suspension told an appellate panel Monday that a related order forfeiting the contents of his trust account rests on an unstable legal foundation and should be relitigated.
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June 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the government to weigh in on a dispute between trading app operator Robinhood and investors who sued over the company's $2.1 billion initial public offering, as the high court considers whether to hear the case.
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June 01, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit refused Monday to reopen a former Miami Beach police officer's lawsuit claiming she was forced out for complaining about colleagues' sexually explicit comments and behavior, finding she couldn't overcome the city's explanation that she repeatedly neglected her duties.
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June 01, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday allowed brokerage Hanna Holdings to ask the Third Circuit to review a March decision largely rejecting its attempt to escape claims from homebuyers that its allegiance to National Association of Realtor rules drove up the cost of purchases.
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June 01, 2026
A Fifth Circuit judge probed Starbucks' labor philosophy Monday in its appeal of a National Labor Relations Board ruling that it stifled workers' rights in a smothering response to an organizing explosion in upstate New York five years ago, asking the company's attorney why it doesn't want unions.
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June 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to resolve a circuit split over whether prisoners may seek early release under the First Step Act through habeas petitions, taking up the appeal of a former Texas lawyer who was convicted in a Mafia takeover scheme of a mortgage loan company.
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June 01, 2026
More than two dozen state attorneys general have thrown their support behind the Federal Trade Commission's bid to revive its lawsuit accusing Meta of monopolizing social networking through its purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram.
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June 01, 2026
A Michigan appellate panel has said a disbarred northeastern Michigan attorney's decision not to back up her arguments sank her appeal arising from a lawsuit accusing her of converting or embezzling trust funds, affirming summary disposition against the attorney and saying she "simply failed to brief the issue."
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June 01, 2026
A First Circuit panel said the Board of Immigration Appeals abused its discretion when rejecting a Colombian woman's attempts to continue her fight against deportation, finding she was likely prejudiced by ineffective counsel.